Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

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Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 16, 2020

As a seed stage investor, I know the math. Some key existings who didn’t want to see their prior money get lost wouldn’t budge on a dilutive financing, despite the fact that they knew where we were headed. Half the companies I invest in won’t provide a financial return. The answer, unfortunately, was to declare bankruptcy.

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Bankruptcy Private Equity Seed Stage Dilution 103

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR.

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews. and Path Intelligence.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. Money and Finance Lists. What is your viral coefficient?

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Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Most importantly from my frame of reference, the amount of activity at the early and seed stage seems to be extremely robust.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Early Stage Valuation 70

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. Source VentureBeat ]. - November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. They start out higher and get diluted down to these levels after multiple rounds of financing; CEO - 4% VPs - 1% each Director level -.5%

Equity 40

Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. I think Micro VCs are best at what they do, A/B round investors ought to be mostly A/B round investors and late-stage investors out to focus on companies that are already profitable and growing rapidly.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296